Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Morales rose to prominence as a leader of the Movement for Socialism (MSM) after he was popularly elected the country's first President of indigenous descent in 2005. He played a key role in national protests against the privatization of water supplies in Cochabamba in 2000 and similarly against the privatization of the country's robust gas resources in 2003.
As the Obama administration criticizes Bolivia and other countries for offering asylum to Snowden, the U.S. continues to harbor Gonzalo SÃ ¡nchez de Lozada, Bolivia's President from 2002-2003 who ordered the military to open fire on citizens protesting the privatization of a major gas line. Sixty people died in that attack. |